Thursday, May 14, is this year’s crossover date for the N.C. General Assembly—when all legislation not requiring new funding must move from one chamber to the other to be eligible for passage.
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Xpress-rated video
Here’s your sneak preview of Wednesday’s edition of the Mountain Xpress, including both a short video welcoming back the iron sculpture and a short photo slideshow focusing on music innovator Bob Moog, the focus of this week’s cover story.
Buncombe Commissioners to hold closed session on “personnel issue” Tuesday
The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners will meet Tuesday in closed session to discuss an unspecified “personnel issue.”
Two free tix to Asylum Street Spankers show at the Grey Eagle! (*update: tix won, thanks y’all!*)
Xpress is giving away two spots for the Asylum Street Spankers show Wednesday at the Grey Eagle. The eclectic roots ensemble is guaranteed to entertain, putting on a wild live show that’s part string-band, part Vaudeville and all witty fun. Want to go? Just e-mail the answer to the trivia question.
Asheville City Council preview: May 12 meeting
Master Plan, CTS and parking rates crowd Tuesday’s agenda.
Return of the Big Iron
After being dislodged by a reckless driver and undergoing weeks of repairs, a signature piece of public art is back on the street in Asheville
Into the Forums
Imagination has been the name of the game on the Mountain Xpress Forums his week.
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
Now that the beer war is over, will the sniping stop?
Downtown Master Plan headed to City Council
Consultants will present the long-awaited Downtown Master Plan at Asheville City Council’s May 12 meeting.
Bonsai! Appalachian style
May 14, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., N.C. Arboretum Bonsai Curator Arthur Joura will explain exactly what’s intended by the Southern Appalachian bonsai concept.
Think pink
Haylee, on College Street. Photo by Jonathan Welch.
Review: Immediate Theatre Project stages A Body of Water
Abrupt, disturbing plot twists as A Body of Water jumps from lightly comedic to dangerously vulnerable. Now at N.C. Stage.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Pleasures of the pre-code era
About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after MGM has released three sets of pre-code movies and Universal just put out their first. Either I was ahead of my time, or he was just simply wrong.
Asheville ties for first place in Beer City USA poll
Asheville and Portland will share honors as Beer City USA, according to beer guru Charlie Papazian. In Asheville, Mountain Xpress and the Orange Peel will co-host an upcoming victory party.
Columnist vs. councilman
In a Thursday column, Asheville Citizen-Times writer John Boyle examined a charge that Asheville City Councilman Carl Mumpower, in his crusade against illegal immigration, has been employing the same scare tactics as anti-communist Joe McCarthy in the 1950s. Mumpower had a simple response: “McCarthy was right.”
WNC News Roundup
Here’s what’s making headlines around Western North Carolina: A 14-year-old Hayesville girl collapsed during her gym class and died; an Appalachian State University student may have died from an alcohol overdose; a writer instrumental in the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was honored; Tweetsie Railroad gears up for another season; and there’s a new brewery planned for Bryson City.
May 9 French Broad River Fins & Gills Classic Fishing Tournament
It’s time for the May 9 French Broad River Fins & Gills Classic Fishing Tournament. Sponsored by Clear Channel Radio of Asheville and Asheville Outdoor Center, the event benefits local nonprofit RiverLink in its mission to protect and restore the French Broad River and its watershed as a place to live, work and play!
URGENT: Asheville closing in on first place in Beer City USA poll; voting ends at 2 p.m. today
With just over a half hour remaining in the national Beer City USA poll, Asheville lags Portland by only 4 percent in the race for first place. Cast your vote here!
Outside Flying Frog
Book Report: The Four Corners of the Sky
Michael Malone’s The Four Corners of the Sky is, at turns, impossibly dramatic, but the lengthy mystery is hardly formulaic. It’s immaculate, tightly-crafted and thrilling from the first page.
From the mountains to the sea: Beer
What happens when seven guys, including four who comprise a band called Rat Jackson, hit 27 breweries and play five gigs during a two-week road trip from North Carolina’s mountains to its coast? Watch the movie Beer Y’all and find out.